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May it be suggested in this case also that the inadvertent second use of the word ebbing was in unconscious reminiscence of the first right use? For another description of the crescent moon, see The Triumph of Life, vv. 78-84:—

the same omen of tempest having been marked by Coleridge, with a reference to what he terms "the grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spens"; the antiquity since much disputed.

(c) Near the end of Act IV. Demogorgon summons

Is there any real meaning in this response? They whom the dead have left are their living fellows, who only change and pass away in becoming also of the dead. Nor can I discern any real disjunctive opposition